Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA) 

Q.  20- What law protects foreign investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
Q.  21- What is the role of the regulations governing investment in Free Zones?
Q.  22- What is the role of the regulations governing investment in Free Zones?
Q.  23- What is meant by the term protection under FIPPA?
Q.  24- What are those rights and privileges?
Q.  25- Are there any other facilities and privileges available to foreign investors?
Q.  26- What issues are specified in the investment license?
Q.  27- Who is qualified to invest in Iran?
Q.  28- How investments by Iranian nationals can be covered under FIPPA?
Q.  29- Is the validity of the investment license limited time wise?
Q.  30- Is it possible to extend the validity, and how?
Q.  31- Are foreign state-owned companies authorized to invest in Iran in accordance with FIPPA?
Q.  32- What are the sectors open to foreign investment in Iran under FIPPA?
Q.  33- Does FIPPA consider pure commercial activities as foreign investment?
Q.  34- Does FIPPA consider pure commercial activities as foreign investment?
Q.  35- Is the legal protection under FIPPA extended to foreign investments automatically?
Q.  36- How and under what condition an investment already carried out but not covered under FIPPA can enjoy FIPPA’s coverage?
Q.  37- Is foreign investment permissible in existing firms? If yes how?
Q.  38- How foreign investment can take place in an existing Iranian company?
Q.  39- In what manners a foreign investor can invest in an existing Iranian company and become a shareholder?
Q.  40- Under what legal framework BOT contracts are implemented?
Q.  41- What is meant by proprietary rights?
Q.  42- What is meant by assignment of proprietary rights in BOT contracts?
Q.  43- Are foreign investment companies authorized to open bank accounts outside Iran?
Q.  44- Is there any requirement for reintroducing export earnings to the Country for joint venture companies and investee firms?
Q.  45- Can foreign investor insure his investment? What kind of insurance?
Q.  46- Can foreign investor insure his investment? What kind of insurance?
Q.  47- Which authority is competent to settle investment disputes between Iranian and foreign investors or between a foreign investor and the Government?
Q.  48- How investment disputes may be settled?
Q.  49- Is ownership of land by foreign nationals permitted in Iran?
Q.  50- Is it permissible to own land by foreign nationals for the purposes other than personal use (i.e. industrial, agricultural, services, etc?
Q.  51- Then how the “ownership of land” in foreign investment projects is resolved?
Q.  52- What is meant by the term “ Iranian Company”?